Rpm package information: Auto incrementing version

Question

I wondering if any one knew if there was a way to auto increment the Version/Release number for the information found in an rpm package.

i.e.

rpm -qil 'package_name'

Would return something like:

Name: package_name
Version: 1.5
Release: 000001

Is there a way to auto increment the release number every time i perform an rpmbuild? The rpm information is located in a spec file.

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

If you don't mind having epoch as a release number, you could do this:

Release: 0.%(perl -e 'print time()')

The reason I put 0. in front is so if you want to ever use something other than epoch as the release tag, and not change the version, you can.